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| reply to phinniusj
Re: Bad move
said by phinniusj  :But a company like Nextel needs to do the upgrades of which you speak anyway. Since Sprint is buying Nextel and Sprint has already notes operating on CDMA based technology (while Nextel has no real commercial data operation) the natural choice for company to choose EVDO. Having two types of technology for a single company does not make sense. It does not make sense for coverage, it does not make sense to support and maintain two sets of equipment. It makes it harder to integrate two systems of backend servers. It makes it more expensive to stock customer equipment etc. The natural choice for Sprint/Nextel is too unify their operations and equipment.
Nextel had to upgrade its IDEN equipment to operate on the new 1900Mhz bands for which they game up their use of 800Mhz bands. Now, since Nextel is supposed to upgrade anyway, they will upgrade to CDMA equipment creating an opportunity for a bigger Network for Sprint. Both Nextel and Sprint is benefiting from such move.
Also CDMA and its addons are not standards. They are the proprietary and patented properties of QCOM who has the OEMs by the short hairs for the licenses. The animosity in the OEM community in regard to the licensing fees is legendary. CDMA2000 is a standard:
»www.umtsworld.com/technology/cdma2000.htm
There are many patents behind most standards. For example, there are patents behind PCI as well but PCI contributors agree to license their patents in non-distrimitory and reasonable fee basis. This is what QCOM is doing with CDMA and CDMA based data standards.
It seems to me that Flarion's technology would not only give better performance and latency to end users and application developers, but would also provide the OEMs better leverage with technology providers given the competition that would come about. Maybe so. But, the best do not always will. It has to make business sense as well. CDMA2000 makes business sense for existing CDMA based operators. |
